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The Green Room: The Deadliest Infectious Diseases
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue talks about the deadly infectious diseases ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
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The New Teacher's Toolbox: Teach Like It's "Shark Week"
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This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue discusses involving media and current events in your classes and teaching science topics that may be controversial.
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Health Wise: More Teens Are Abusing Human Growth Hormone
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This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses teen use of synthetic human growth hormone.
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Safer Science: Flammables: A Hot Safety Issue
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses how to store and use flammable materials correctly.
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Career of the Month: Data Scientist
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Soyeon Park's career path to becoming a data scientist.
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Teaching Quantitative Reasoning for Nonscience Majors Through Carbon Footprint Analysis
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This article describes and assesses a laborastory exercise that has students calculate their "carbon footprint" and evaluate the impacts of various behavior choices on that footprint.
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Active Learning in the Atmospheric Science Classroom and Beyond Through High-Altitude Ballooning
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This article describes the implementation of high-altitude balloon research into a variety of undergraduate atmospheric science classes as a means of increasing active student engagement in real-world, problem-solving…
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Using Collaboration Between English and Biology to Teach Scientific Writing and Communication
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This article describes a model for a scientific writing and communication course.
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Too Long to Read: Assessing the Motivation Behind Graduate Student Attendance in Reading Groups
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Graduate-level reading groups serve as a primary forum for students to learn current and complex concepts in their field. Because graduate students lament that reading "abnormally long" articles discourage them from…
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Eliminating the Textbook: Learning Science With Cell Phones
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This article describes a study that compares student learning in an ecology course between a semester in which cell phones were used to access information.
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The authors describe four instructional modules with the goals of increasing student confidence, appreciation, and performance in both experimental design and data analysis.
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Research and Teaching: Midterm and First-Exam Grades Predict Final Grades in Biology Courses
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This article describes a study in which the authors analyzed the extent to which two standard forms of feedback, midterm and first-exam grades, correlated with final grades in several biology courses.
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This article describes a a comparison of student performance in a series of two introductory biology classes and one third-year class shows that students with graduate teaching assistant and undergraduate teaching…
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Idea Bank: Start the Year Off Green!
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With summer upon us, now is a good time to think about incorporating green practices in the year ahead. This Idea Bank presents a few tips to help decrease your classroom waste, increase recycling, and make students…
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Science Sampler: Nanoscale in perspective
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Nanoscale science is a growing field, and to appreciate the work of scientists in this field, it is important for students to understand the scale of work being done. This activity, designed to bring nanoscale into the…
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